"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Undercover Panhandling: What Did I Learn and What Did I Earn?
To find out what it's like to panhandle, I spent three hours at a Tampa intersection with a simple cardboard sign that said only, "THANK YOU." I stuck a tiny video camera through a cutout in the sign. It was pretty easy work. And, yeah, it did pay better than my first part-time job.
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